Pinhole SPECT imaging: Compact projection/backprojection operator for efficient algebraic reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 158-167

  Israel Jost, Vincent ^a,b   Choquet, Philippe ^a   Salmon, Stéphanie ^b   Blondet, Cyrille ^a   Sonnendrücker, Eric ^b   Constantinesco, André ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

^b Institute de Recherche Math Avancee   (France)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Pinhole; Single photon emission computed tomography; Small animal imaging; Symmetries

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ATTENUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS;

EFFICIENT ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION (EAR); PINHOLES; POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS (PSF); SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SYMMETRIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WISTAR RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 31644438896     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.861707     Document Type: Article

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